Re: [MacPerl] Perl on a macintosh

[Brian McNett <webmaster@mycoinfo.com>]

Jared--

That's a fairly general question.  You might stand a better chance of 
getting an answer, if you'd be more specific about what you want to do.  
"...do things on a mac in perl...", doesn't inspire one to offer much in 
the way of a solution.

However, I *like* challenges such as this, so:

To begin, we make Chris and Vicki happy by mentioning "MacPerl Power and 
Ease".  This is 
*the* "must-have" book if you're writing Perl on the Mac.  Sure there are 
other books about Perl, and there are other books about Perl that you 
"must" have, but MPPE will save you a load of heartache.

Second, stand-alone apps, to be completely independant of Perl must 
include copies of all module code which they use.  Doing this by hand is 
daunting, which is why there's the "RuntimeBuilder".

http://macperl.com/macperl/depts/Code/Tools/RuntimeBuilder/

It's a MacPerl "droplet", onto which you drop a MacPerl script.  The 
droplet works out which modules the script uses, and includes them in the 
resource fork along with the runtime code.  RuntimeBuilder handles shared 
libraries as well, making a single, portable package, which doesn't 
require the main MacPerl application to work.

Third, stick around on this list for a while.  The examples that show up 
here really rock!  All sorts of useful tools and info come across this 
list every day.

--B

Brian McNett, Webmaster
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